April 12, 2016 |
I’m quite impatient. When it comes to getting what I want, say those white goddess sandals from Public School’s SS16 collection, it’s a case of I need it and I need it now. Simple. Imagine my joy then, when just yesterday Public School announced that they will be falling in line with other brands by presenting their shows off the traditional fashion week schedule. Out with the old and in with the new, we say. The collections will be shown in December and June, aligning more closely to the menswear and pre-collections calendar (as well as with the retail delivery calendar – my bank account is currently shrieking in agony) – see, easy.
“Showing twice a year with both men’s and women’s in one show will allow us to really develop our ideas cohesively throughout the year and subsequently slow the entire process down,” said Dao-Yi Chow in an announcement. “We can actually enjoy our collections as opposed to being tied to the calendar.” Nothing worse than being tied down, unless… well it’s only Tuesday and I digress. Combining their menswear and womenswear collections into one show they are so far titled as, ‘Collection 1’ (pre-spring and spring) and ‘Collection 2’ (pre-fall and fall).
“When we launched women’s it was always the extension of the men’s collections. It was a collection that our female friends could enjoy without altering the men’s pieces to wear,” adds designer Maxwell Osborne. “We feel the similar design approach made more of an impact when we showed men’s and women’s at the same time.”
Photograph by Jason Lloyd-Evans, backstage at Public School SS16
